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s. WDOD & E}. H. HEPPLESTON. REVERSIBLE INGRAIN OR IMITATION BRUSSELSCARPET. No. 421,219.

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Patented Feb. 11, 1890,

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SAMUEL WOOD AND GEORGE HENRY IIEPPLESTON, OF HECKllIONDVVIKE,

' COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

REVERSIBLE INGRAIN R HVHTATiON BRUSSELS CARPET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,219, dated February11, 1890.

Application filed July 9, 1889. Serial No. 316,946. (No specimens.)

To all whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL \V001) and GEORGE HENRY HEPPLESTON, subjectsof the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements v inReversible Ingrain or Imitation Brussels" Carpets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of our invention is to produce in a cheap fabric a closeimitation of Brussels carpet. As is well known, a Brussels carpet has apattern on one of its sides only, and it is our intention in themanufacture of ingrainor imitation Brussels carpet to produce a patternon both of its sides, or both sides maybe plain-that is, with only onecolor appearing. In either case the carpet is reversible and alike oneach side.

In making a reversible ingrain or imitation Brussels carpet according toour invention we form the pattern by means of the warp instead of theweft, as hitherto, and to do this we employ ingrain woolen warp,manipulated or operated by the harness or jacquard. \Ve also employ afine catch or binding warp, manipulated or operated by the gear orJacquard harness, such fine catch-warp being employed to bind the weftinto the fabric. If, therefore, the fabric woven be two-ply, we th row asimilar ingrain woolen or cotton warp-thread on the underan d on theupper face of the fabric, accordingto the pattern being w0ven,bywhichmeans three colors are shown on the fabric-two by the weft and one bythe ingrain warpand if the fabric be a three-ply carpet, with theaddition of the similar ingrain warp thrown on each face of the fabric,then four colors will be imparted to the carpet, and so onthat is tosay, by throwing the in grain warp 011 each side of the fabric one morecolor is given than the number of weft-threads employed, eachweft-thread being of different color and appearing, together with thewarp, upon each surface, and the warp-threads being alike in color. Thusthe ingrain warpthread, employed as above set forth, produces a similarand substantial pattern on each side, whereby the carpet becomesreversible, and this can be quite possible.

ing portions of the opposite sides of the carpet. The integrity of thefigure or outline is nn'iintained, however, and the same pattern is prodneed in a different combination of the same colors, the main feature ofthe pattern being preserved by the similar warp-threads, which are alikein color.

In order that our invention may be better understood we will makereference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is anenlarged cross-section of our improved carpet, which is a three-plythatis to say, it is a carpet wherein three shuttles are employed. arepresents the weft-threads, which may be composed of any suitablefiber. I) and c are cotton or other fine warp-threads, which areemployed for binding the weft together, while (I and 6 represent theingrain or woolen warp. It will be seen that the said ingrain warp issimilarly thrown on correspondingly-opposite sides of the fabric for thepurpose of forming figures thereon. It will therefore be seen that acarpet made like that shown in Fig. 1 may have four colorsthreecolors'produced "by the weft and one color by the ingrain warp.

Fig. 2 shows a carpet made two-pl y, in which case only three colorscould be producedtwo by the weft and one by the warp. It is thereforeobvious that a carpet made in the manner above described will have acorresponding pattern or figure on both sides thereof, allowing suchcarpet to be reversed or to be used on both of its sides.

It has been hereinbefore stated that. both sides of the carpet may beplain or with only one color appearing. It is not proposed to makecarpets like this, but the same would All the threads, both warp andweft, would of course be of the same color, and only a very slightpattern could be formed. This would be accomplished by making the weftand warp of different material or texture, so that they would have adifferent appearance. A very slight diiference in the shade or strengthof the dye used upon the different materials used for the weft and warpwould make the pattern much more marked, even if the weft and warp werepractically of the same color before being woven.

We claim as our invention A reversible carpet consisting of the thickweft-threads a, the thick warp-threads (l and e, lying between theweft-tl1reads and appearing in corresponding portions of the oppositesides of the carpet, thereby producing the same pattern upon each side,and the thin warp-t1] reads for binding-the weft-threads to- I 5 SAMUELWVOOD. GEORGE H. HEPPLESTON.

YVitnesses:

C. W. W. MILWARD, U. S. Consular Agent.

THOMAS H. BARRON, Clerk to lllcssrs. Tracker 42 Crosslcy, Patent Agents,lVfcw'lcct Place, ffutlders field,

